Co-founder, Co-chair, and Associate, cross-disciplinary Governing America in a Global Era Program, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 2006-

Chair, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, 2001-2002(Interim), 2007-2010.

President, International History and Politics Section, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2008-2010.

Chair, APSA Task Force on U.S. Standing in World Politics, 2008-2009. Selected and organized a group of eighteen leading scholars for fifteen month study. Produced report with roll-out presentations at National Press Club, US Department of State, and APSA Annual Meeting, September 2009.

“Is Anybody Still a Realist?”[with Andrew Moravcsik] International Security 24:2 (Fall 1999).Related: “Correspondence: Brother Can you Spare a Paradigm? (Or was Anybody Ever a Realist?),”
International Security 25:1 (Summer 2000).

“Which Norms Matter? Rethinking the `Failure’ of Internationalism,” International Organization 51:1 (Winter 1997).
Reprinted in Beth A. Simmons and Richard H. Steinberg, eds. International Law and International Relations
(Cambridge University Press, 2007).

“Culture, Preferences, and the International Cooperation Two-Step,” American Political Science Review 90:1 (March 1996).
Reprinted in Theo Farrell, ed.Security Studies: Critical Concepts in International Relations (London and New
York: Routledge 2009).

“Sell Unipolarity? The Future of an Overvalued Concept” in John Ikenberry, Michael Mastanduno, and William Wohlforth, eds. International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

“Introduction” and “Managing the Murky Future” in Leffler and Legro, eds. In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011) [co-authored w/ Melvyn Leffler].

“The Omnipower: The United States and Regional Orders,” in Dirk Nabers, ed., Regional Powers and Regional Order(Routledge, 2011).

“A Return to Normalcy? Managing American Internationalism,” in Daniel Drezner, ed. Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy (Washington, DC: Brookings 2009).

“Purpose Transitions: China and the American Response,” in Robert Ross and Zhu Feng, eds., China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008).

“Introduction” and “Dilemmas of Strategy” in Leffler and Legro, eds. To Lead the World: U.S. Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (New York: Oxford University Press 2008) [co-authored w/ Melvyn Leffler].

“Norms, Identity, and Their Limits: A Theoretical Reprise,” [with Paul Kowert] in Peter Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).

US Standing in the World: Causes, Consequences, and the Future. APSA Task Force Report, (American Political Science Association 2009).

“The Ties that Bind the United States: A Recount,” H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Stephen Brooks and Bill Wohlforth, World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy (Princeton University Press, 2008). Volume X, No. 13 (May 18, 2009). http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-13.pdf

H-Diplo Roundtable on Leffler and Legro, eds., To Lead the WorldVolume X, No. 9 (2009). Edited by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Robert Art, Michael Cox, Henry R. Nau, William O. Walker III. Response by Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro. Published by H-Diplo on 27 March 2009. http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-9.pdf

“Explaining Change in International Relations: The Puzzling Rise and Demise of Unipolarity.” Lecture and Masterclass, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany, October 11-12, 2010.

“To Lead the World,” Forum, Miller Center for Public Affairs, Sept 15, 2008; Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, September 25, 2008

“China’s Future Intentions,” Lecture on panel “What Does China Want? The Intentions and Desires of a New World Power,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, May 7, 2008.

Panel Presentation, “The Possibility for New Ideas in U.S. Foreign Policy,” at Conference on The Past, Present, and Future of Policy Planning, The Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University, April 18-19, 2008.

“China’s Destiny: Three Theories and an Argument,” Invited Lecture, United States Military

Academy at West Point, February 7, 2008.

“The American Worldview After the Bush Doctrine,” Invited Lecture, Virginia Military Institute, December 6, 2007.

Presented paper, “U.S. Hegemony and the Erosion of International Order,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago Illinois, September 2007.

Chair, International Politics and History Division, American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago Illinois, September 2007.

“The Future of the American Worldview,” Invited Lecture, Baltimore Council on Foreign Relations, June 14, 2007.

Co-organizer, “After the Bush Doctrine: American National Security Policy in the Next Administration,” Conference, the Miller Center of Public Affairs, June 2007.

Member, Center for Strategic and International Studies Project on the Successor Generation for US Foreign and Security Policy, 2000 -2007 . Meetings in Singapore and Jakarta, May 2001; Hong Kong and Guangzhou, January 2002; Malaysia, September 2004.

Discussant, Sasakawa Peace Foundation Seminar, “China’s Security Strategy with a Special Focus on East Asia,” Washington, D.C. July 6, 2005.

“The Bush National Security Strategy: Towards Imperialism or Isolationism?” and

“International Relations Theory and the Rise of China.” Invited Lectures, Wuhan University (November 2002), Jilin University and Northeast Normal University (December 2002), The Central University for Nationalities of China (January 2003), Yunnan University (March 2003).